Hello, all. NBB here again. Sharon’s off to Kazakhstan (from Frankfurt, where she could not, alas, find a frankfurter, only Viennese sausage), so it’s time for our latest Birdorable guest blogging contest entry. This one comes to us from Craig Nash of Peregrine’s Bird Blog, an involves some close encounters with a very large sea [ Read More ]
Hello all, NBB here. Sharon is safely in Germany just now, waiting to travel to Kazakhstan tomorrow. Today’s entry is from Dawn Frary, Volunteer Owl Feeder and Wildlife Rehabilitator, Macbride Raptor Project. You can read more of her stuff at her wildlife rehabilitation blog: For the Birds. Best. Rehab. Ever Tonight was perhaps the best [ Read More ]
NBB here. Sharon’s heading off to Kazakhstan today as part of a special project for Swarovski Optik and Birdlife International, which means that it’s time to begin the Birdorable Guest Blogging contest. Our first entry is from Callae Frazier, who describes her entry as: It’s an avian-related personal narrative that takes place at my childhood [ Read More ]
Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re here to announce that the winner of the Swarovski Optik Guest Blogging Contest is… Lynnanne Fager! You can read Lynnanne’s entry on an unusual hybrid here. Special thanks to Swarovski Optik for providing the prizes for our contest: all the posted entries will get a Swarovski binocular cleaning kit, and Lynanne will [ Read More ]
Hello blog readers! Or should I say hola lectores del blog? I am back from my Guatemala birding adventure and am sorting through photos. I want to thank everyone who entered the guest blogging contest. There were many fantastic blog entries and I’m sorry that we couldn’t post them all. Be sure to check out [ Read More ]
And welcome to day 10 of the Swarovski Optik Guest Blogging Contest. Sharon is winging her way back to the U.S. as I write this, with tons of photos and stories about her trip to Guatemala. Thanks to all our Guest bloggers for their great entries! Our entry for today comes from David McRee, whom [ Read More ]
Welcome back to the Swarovski Optik Blogging Contest entry! Just a few more entries to go! Today’s entry comes from Eric Brierley, past president of the San Antonio Audubon Society. He helped with a banding project for many years at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center in San Antonio, TX. Currently Eric birds and blogs from Austin, [ Read More ]
It’s day eight of the Swarovski Optik Guest Blogging Contest. Today’s entry comes from Jeffrey Gordon with a much-needed post for mid-winter: spring cleaning! For more of Jeff’s writing, you can visit his blog. I’m fortunate to live in Lewes, Delaware, which just happens to be the northermost place in the world you can see [ Read More ]
Welcome back to day seven! We’ve had quite a few entry about raptors so far, so now we’re going to switch things up and talk about one of my favorite kinds of birds: corvids. Today’s entrant is Stacey Wittig of the Vagabond Lulu blog, who helpfully included a bio! Stacey is a freelance writer based [ Read More ]
NBB here. Hope you all had a good weekend! We’re back today with an entry from a young birder named Holly, who documents a familiar feeling to all birders: getting nooged, as Sharon puts it. Hi! My name is Holly, I am 9 years old. Me and my dad, and my brother went looking for [ Read More ]
